Morality Quotes · Page 56

I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against…

— Kailash Satyarthi

Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.

— Joseph Farah

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

— Gary Bauer

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

— Peter Singer

You have to adhere to a certain morality, a certain level of decorum, or else you'll be punished and labeled.

— Margaret Cho

“Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanity’s reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets.”

— Karen Davis

Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

— Herman Kahn

The soul's safety is in its heat. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, make for a Church without power.…

— Samuel Chadwick

By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit…

— Zhuangzi

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing…

— Socrates

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the…

— Walter Rodney

I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he's found himself. His morality is rather rigid,…

— John Kennedy Toole

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Moral ideas about what constitutes a meritorious or meaningful use of one’s life and opportunities produce specific attitudes towards drug use and…

— Daniel Waterman

If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Let's say somebody were [in the White House] and they wanted to destroy this nation. I would create division among the people,…

— Benjamin Carson

Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all moral sanctions. This is…

— Julian Huxley

“What is called the morality of a society is no more than a consequence of the morality of individuals. There is, by…

— Wendell Berry

I do think that I am making efforts to balance out conservative energy, and the false morality and judgmental attitude that I've…

— Rick Owens

“99% of all addicts are liars and thieves. This might sound unfair and even close-minded, but it's the truth. There are some…

— Ashly Lorenzana

“Viruses have no morality, no sense of good and evil, the deserving or the undeserving… AIDS is not the swift sword with…

— Chris Crutcher

“Many of the innovations in science and philosophy have come from unbelievers, some of whom died for their 'unbeliefs.' Without unbelief, we…

— Gordon Stein

Because morality is a social necessity, the moment faith in god is banished, man's gaze turns from god to man and he…

— Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

The "hole in the moral ozone" is really what's behind the hole in the ozone.

— Leonard Sweet

The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

— George Bernard Shaw

“The morality of the poet's radiant and productive atmosphere is the morality of the right sensation.”

— Wallace Stevens

“Don't ever, ever try to lie to the internet - because they will catch you.”

— Gabe Newell

My morality and faith are choices. My sexual orientation however isn't.

— Anthony Venn-Brown

“There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.”

— A.E. Samaan

“What you feed your soul is what you harvest with your actions.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.

— Thomas Jefferson

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

— Thomas Jefferson

The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“We are all flawed and creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future?”

— Carl Sagan

“Dream big dreams! Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide what's right before you decide what's possible.”

— Anonymous

“I've found when a person does not have the luxury to weigh morality one does not ponder, but does what must be…

— Charlie Courtland

Our founding fathers recognized that morality was the foundation of a successful republic.

— William Barr